The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Attuwatse III, condemned with the former head of the whip of the Senate, Sir Rowland Owie, for the death of his wife, Lady Helen Owie.
Owie revealed to the Olu delegation as his marriage to his deceased wife made it possible for the late Pa Alfred Rewane to sponsor the election of the late Professor Ambrose in 1979, as a candidate for the governor of the then Unity Party of Nigeria, despite supporting another aspirant during the main elections of the party.
The Warri Olu delegation was composed of the head Yahya Pessu, the ojomo of the Kingdom of Warri; Chief Brown Mene, Gewa-Olousan of the Kingdom of Warri; The head Lawrence Wilbert, the Agura Tete of the Kingdom of Warri, who led other delegates made of men and women of the extraction of Itsekiri to the residence of the Benin of Owie.
By giving the message of the Itsekiri monarch, the garment Mene said that Lady Owie’s death was painful, but that there was a comfort in the fact that she was not forced to bed that those around her would have liked to be dead.
He said: “There is nothing in this world that happens without God designed him, even the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. God knew it from the beginning. Our sister has lived a worthy life. God is the only one who gives and takes. We know that it will come once when you will come down, when that moment will arrive, take the heart, remember the legeses he left behind.”
In response, Owie said that his deceased wife brought unity and love to his immediate and enlarged family, including his mother and it was because of him that Pa Rewane joined his request to sponsor the elections of the Governorate of Alli.
“Your daughter followed me to Pa Rewane after the primaries in which her favorite candidate, the deceased Air Iyare, who is my family member, lost. He told us to go to Benin to M and K Shop. When we arrived there, they gave us 21 buses for the campaign of the Alli, one for each of the 19 local areas and two for the secretariat. Your daughter, who is my late wife, accompanied us from that visit.
“He has me mirrorly next to me, politically and in all aspects of my life.”